It could be titled "why they left." Extreme poverty and near starvation existence was the norm, as recalled by grandaunt, who worked from dawn to dusk in the fields with only potatoes and sauerkraut in the morning and in the evening.

Carolyn

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Bill Tarkulich

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On Tue, October 27, 2009 3:52 pm, piekielnik@... wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Here's a photo, circa 1905, from Pekelnik, Orava, Austria/Hungary of my
> g-grandparents and their daughter, my grandmother.
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> It could be titled "why they left." Extreme poverty and near starvation
> existence was the norm, as recalled by grandaunt, who worked from dawn to
> dusk in the fields with only potatoes and sauerkraut in the morning and
> in the evening.
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> Carolyn
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